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| - I really REALLY wanted to like the food here. The owner is very nice & the place looks nice & is clean, but the food is TERRIBLE.
I'm well versed in REAL Middle Eastern food, plus I'm a foodie. I believe that the guy I saw who came out of the kitchen to put something on a plate is the cook & he is LATINO!
People, you NEVER trust a different ethnic background to cook the ethnic food you are eating. That's cooking 101. Not unless he's a to die for real chef.
I haven't tried the lentil soup yet, so maybe it will be good, but I doubt it.
Here is what I did try:
1. Grape leaves - while the vegetable one was better than the rice one, it's not traditional. I've never had a vegetable one in my life & I've been eating grape leaves since the 80's. Even the can one I buy at Trader Joe's (called Dolmades for the Greeks) is better .
I bought 4 rice & 1 veggie. They were bland & I ended up giving it to my friend, so there was $4 down the drain.
2. The $9.99 plate consisted of moussaka & the eggplant with beef, which if I had to choose the best dish, that was it, but it was over cooked, dry & very little flavor.
The moussaka (get this) was made with CHICKEN & had pasta in it. WTH??? It was also bland.
The best moussaka I have found in all my years is at a place across from the University. Shocked me too. Expensive, but very good.
The side dish of gluten or whatever that was, was also bland. I ate most of these dishes only because I was starving & on the road, but then I felt sick afterward because I always feel sick after I eat food that isn't good.
3. The tabbouleh was disgusting. It didn't even look green, NO TASTE, no lemon, no salt, nothing. It also looked like it had been sitting there wilting for hours.
I'm a HUGE Tabbouleh lover when it's prepared properly. This isn't an easy dish to prepare, but even the box mix of Tabbouleh I used to buy was better than this.
When a Middle Eastern place is selling chicken nuggets & burgers, that's warning enough they don't know what they are doing. I of course didn't know this until I got there.
Even the pickled turnips weren't good enough for me to eat.
Why people give this place 4-5 stars is beyond me, other than to say they've never had REAL Middle Eastern Lebanese food or their sense of quality is very low.
I mean no disrespect to the REAL reviewers here (everyone knows that most reviews are fake). If you love this food, go for it, for people like me who know what good food is, you will have expectations.
I'm not trying to be a snob, but nothing irks me more than when I waste my hard earned money on food that is so bad I have to throw or give most of it away.
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